This year, for the first time in the ~14 billion year history of our Universe, all of us can do so with a synchronized web page!
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Category: Emotion, emotion, experience, Jon Cleland Host, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, Practice, practice, Starstuff, Contemplating
Tags: halloween, Pagan, spirituality, witch, witchcraft
The longer nights around Winter Solstice give more dark skies for the Northern lights – Solar Cycle 25 has already proven to be very strong (see previous posts), with more to come! For many of us, this is a big Sabbat, which takes a more preparation (and if you are buying gifts, the Naturalistic Pagan Gift List here might help).
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Category: Calendar, Families, inspiration, Latest Posts, meaning, naturalistic pagan, Practice, seasonal, Seasonal Themes, spirituality, uncategorized
Tags: Christmas, Pagan, spirituality, winter solstice, Yule
Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. I arrived in San Francisco as a young queer man from the East Coast, carrying the habits and horizons of a world in which spirituality had been defined by Christian liturgies and secular intellectual life, with…
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What naturalistic (small-p) pagan books have been an inspiration to you?
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Category: John Halstead, Latest Posts
Tags: Adrienne Rich, animism, Annie Dillard, books, David Abram, David Whyte, Mary Oliver, metaphysical section, Natural Pagans, naturalism, Pagan, Paganism, poetry, Rile, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Steinbeck, Terry Tempest Williams, Wendell Berry, Wordsworth
No, I’m sorry, but being “forced” to listen to a prayer in a Unitarian church is not oppression, especially in light of the serious, systemic, and pervasive oppression of people of color in our society.
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Category: John Halstead, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan
Tags: atheist, bias, Blacks, Christian, harassment, oppression, Pagan, people of color, persecution, persecution complex, victim, victim mentality, White privilege, White supremacy